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 Self help activities support your recovery and help you expand your awareness, develop life skills, develop self acceptance and self appreciation, develop new relationships and equip you to live a life with more competence and joy. Here you will find articles that show you many ways of providing yourself with self help exercises and activities to enrich your life and articles that help you understand your own thinking and emotional process. Topics include: friendships, self-esteem, dreams, binges, relapse, yoga, secrets, check lists, writing, dream journals, gardening, education and career opportunities and more.

   Details    Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/)  ![Break thru sound barrier800px-thumbnail](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Break_thru_sound_barrier800px-thumbnail.jpg)The pilot and the plane are breaking through the sound barrier. You need to break through a barrier too, and it may not be what you think it is. (\*pix)

 [  Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/stretch-to-freedom)

 

 

   Details    Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/)  ![Schwartzberg-Still](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Schwartzberg-Still.jpg)"We protect what we fall in love with," says Louie Schwartzberg\* in [his inspiring gratitude TED talk.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ)

What do you love? Who do you love? Who or what might you love if you opened your eyes and your heart? Are you ready to embrace and let your soul reap new joy this Thanksgiving?



 [  Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/fall-in-love-for-thanksgiving)

 

 

   Details    Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/)  **![Verity  Winston](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Verity__Winston.JPG)Empathy for animals and plants will give us the real information we need to care for ourselves and our environment. What is happening to them is happening to us.**

 [  Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/humanity-lessons-from-a-puppy-lesson)

 

 

   Details    Category: [Self-Help](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/blog/self-help/)  ![Suburban Garden 3 spring](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/Suburban_Garden_3_spring.jpg)  
*\*pix a healthy garden expands and contracts with the seasons while simultaneously containing continuous decay and birth.*Our goal in healing moves beyond recovery and into the realm of continuous renewal.

 [  Read more … ](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/self-help/rising-to-the-eating-disorder-challenge-moving-beyond-recovery-to-renewal)